SPECIAL PREVIEW•ENERGA CAMERIMAGE FESTIVAL 2022

TIME TO CELEBRATE

By the EnergaCAMERIMAGE Team, with additional reporting by Ron Prince

Oh, what an anniversary! The International Film Festival EnergaCAMERIMAGE, held between 12-19 November in Toruń, Poland, is celebrating 30 years of promoting the art of cinematography and pushing the envelope of how a festival can support brilliant film professionals – mainly cinematographers, but also production designers, editors, documentary filmmakers, avant-garde auteurs and creators of music video magic – who otherwise pretty much stay out of the limelight.

Yes, a celebration of 30 years of communitycreating endeavours that will lure masters of cinematography from right around the world, to meet their colleagues and talk with a myriad of students attending the festival to get inspired and absorb the love of filmmaking. 30 years of screenings, discussions, exhibitions, parties and the overall spirit of networking that makes everyone appreciate what Marek Żydowicz, Kazik Suwała and, in the words of the great David Lynch, “The Camerimage Gang” are doing.

This year’s guest list includes: Stephen H. Burum, Sam Mendes, Ulrike Ottinger, Alex Gibney, Hype Williams, Vance Burberry, Sarah Greenwood, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Jean-Marie Dreujou, Jean Rabasse, Mandy Walker, Claudio Miranda, Walter Murch, Ed Lachman, Ben Davis, Roberto Schaefer, Erik Messerschmidt, Charlotte Bruus Christensen, Luc Montpelier, Stephen Lighthill, Ian Murray, Bill Mechanic, Nigel Dick, Katie Spencer, Oliver Stapleton, Rodrigo Garcia, Ben Smithard, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Jan Roelfs, Daniel Pearl, Michael Hoffman, Markus Forderer, Florian Hoffmeister, Fredrik Wenzel, Colin Tilley, Michael Neubauer, Lol Crawley, Piotr Niemyjski, Peter Zeitlinger, Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, Larkin Seiple, Baran Bo Odar… and many, many more.

Who will win the Golden Frog?

Films in the Main Competition…

All Quiet On The Western Front - dir. Edward Berger, DP James Friend BSC ASC Angel In The Wall, The - dir. Lorenzo Bianchini, DP Peter Zeitlinger Bardo, False Chronicles Of A Handful Of Truths - dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, DP Darius Khondji AFC ASC Blonde - dir. Andrew Dominik, DP Chayse Irvin CSC ASC Elvis - dir. Baz Luhrmann, DP Mandy Walker ACS ASC Empire Of Light - dir. Sam Mendes, DP Sir Roger Deakins CBE BSC ASC Living - dir. Oliver Hermanus, DP Jamie D. Ramsay Tár - dir. Todd Field, DP Florian Hoffmeister BSC Top Gun: Maverick - dir. Joseph Kosinski, DP Claudio Miranda ASC The Perfect Number - dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, DP Piotr Niemyjski PSC JSC War Sailor - dir. Gunnar Vikene, Sturla Brandth Grøvlen White Noise - dir. Noah Baumbach, Lol Crawley BSC

Lifetime Achievement Award for Stephen H. Burum ASC

Stephen Henry Burum ASC is one of the foremost American cinematographers, who worked during the 1980s on a number of visually-impressive films that shaped the cinematic tendencies of the decade. A regular collaborator of Brian De Palma during the last quarter of the 20th century, Burum lensed several unforgettable features that are still widelyrecognised the world over.

Burum’s first career steps date to the early 1960s and the UCLA School Of Theatre, Film & Television in Los Angeles, where he was guided by some of the most prominent film-industry professionals, including cinematographer Charles G. Clarke ASC, and one of the very first female directors in the history of cinema, Dorothy Arzner. A committed and hardworking student, Burum photographed about 50 student films, shot mainly in B&W. During this period, he also became a teaching assistant for Charles Clarke and Stanley Kramer’s classes.

Burum’s first professional experience of working behind the camera came in 1964 on the wildlife television series, The NBC Wonderful World Of Color, produced for Disney Studios. After he was drafted in 1965, Burum shot training films for the US Army Pictorial Centre in New York. Following his two-year military service, he returned to California. Due to initial difficulties in joining the union, he worked on commercials and TV programmes, plus low-budget and independent film productions. These included Scream Bloody Murder directed by Marc B. Ray, and the popular TV series, Little House On The Prairie, for which he shot countless

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MagiCam inserts. His creative potential was recognised when he shared a technical craft Emmy Award for VFX on the popular PBS science TV programme, Cosmos (1980).

In 1976, Burum worked as the second unit cameraman/director on the set of his first feature, Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, whom he befriended at UCLA, and then on the second unit of The Black Stallion, directed by his other UCLA colleague, Carroll Ballard. Even though he began his career as a DP in 1964, Burum’s formal feature debut as a fully-fledged cinematographer dates to 1982 when he worked on The Escape Artist, a story of a boy exploring the magician’s world, directed by Caleb Deschanel ASC.

Burum’s career began to flourish in the early 1980s with the fascinating war drama Uncommon Valor (dir. Ted Kotcheff), St. Elmo’s Fire (dir. Joel Schumacher), the bittersweet story of a group of friends entering adulthood, and the fast-paced crime thriller 8 Million Ways To Die (dir. Hal Ashby). At this point, Burum also met Danny De Vito for whom he shot the grotesque black comedy The War Of The Roses (1989), and the critically-acclaimed biopic Hoffa (1992), for which he received an Academy Award a nomination for Best Cinematography.

Above all, however, Burum is most famous for his collaboration with director Brian De Palma, with whom he made a total of eight films exploring a variety of genres. They included Body Double (1984), The Untouchables (1987), Casualties Of War (1989), Raising Cain (1992), Carlito’s Way (1993), Mission: Impossible (1996), Snake Eyes (1998) and Mission To Mars (2000). Working alongside De Palma shaped Burum’s visual style and transformed him into an experienced and mature cinematographer, sensitive to the aspects of visualising a story and fulfilling a director’s expectations. Towards the end of his professional career, that spanned almost 40 years, Burum returned to his roots, conducting special classes as part of The Kodak Cinematographer-InResidence programme at his alma mater, the UCLA Film School, during 2006-2007, which proved very popular amongst younger generations of cinematographers.

Burum’s achievements led to ASC Award nominations for The Untouchables (1988) and The War Of The Roses (1990), and the prestigious ASC Award for Cinematography with Hoffa (1993), which also brought him the Oscar nomination. He was granted a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 by the ASC.

Sam Mendes to receive Special Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for Director

There have been many brilliant film directors in the history of cinema, yet only six of them were able to spark such tumult and admiration with their feature debuts that they were presented with Academy Awards – Delbert Mann for Marty (1955), Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961, co-directed with Robert Wise), Robert Redford for Ordinary People (1980), James L. Brooks for Terms Of Endearment (1983), Kevin Costner for Dances With Wolves (1990), and Sam Mendes for American Beauty (1999).

This was just the beginning for Mendes, a distinguished theatre director who started gathering critical-acclaim and winning awards in 1989 when he was presented with the Critics Circle Award for Best Newcomer for his adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. Since his impressive Oscar achievement he went on to become one of the greatest and most versatile filmmakers of any generation. Mendes’s most recent film, Empire Of Light, his beautiful love letter to the ephemeral magic of cinema, shot by Sir Roger Deakins CBE BSC ASC will be the opening, incompetition film at this year’s festival.

Mendes’ Road To Perdition, the Great Depression-era crime drama, fused the tropes of gangster movies with a story of family on the verge of collapse. Both American Beauty and Road To Perdition were recognised with Academy Awards for the mesmerising and oft-copied images of cinematographer Conrad L. Hall ASC. The director’s subsequent Jarhead was an eloquently staged war movie done as a semi-absurdist satire about the futility of wars, shot by Deakins who became one of Mendes’ greatest collaborators for years to come.

Mendes’s next films, Revolutionary Road (shot by Deakins) and Away We Go (shot by Ellen Kuras ASC), formed a sort of a diptych about different ways couples could achieve true happiness, or destroy each other, surprised Mendes’s fans and proved the director’s experience in crafting stories about the dark and bright sides of the human condition. Yet even more surprising was his decision to take the reins of a Bond movie. With Skyfall, Mendes revitalised the 007 canon and the film became one of the most appreciated, and most successful, entries in the ever-evolving franchise.

When Mendes helmed 007 Spectre (shot by Hoyte Van Hoytema NSC FSF ASC), he again created a daring reinterpretation of what a Bond film could become in the hands of a visionary artist. Case in point, the brilliant prologue during the ‘Day Of The Dead’ celebrations that left many critics and viewers speechless.

With 1917, a strikingly poignant war film as well as a technical marvel shot by Deakins (recognised with an Academy Award), Mendes did it with a ferociousness that proved he is a truly one-of-a-kind director. Empire Of Light is not the beginning of a new chapter, but rather a satisfying continuation of the stories Mendes has crafted through previous decades. A powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema, set in England in the 1980s, it will bring audiences many moments of cinematic joy.

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Sarah Greenwood with Special Award for Production Designer

If you love cinema, it is entirely possible that among your favourite films there is at least one that Sarah Greenwood worked on as a production designer. From reimagining the late 18th century England in Joe Wright’s Pride And Prejudice to reinventing the late 19th century London with Guy Ritchie and his Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, and from recreating Great Britain’s struggles during the Second World War in Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour to representing one of the most beloved Disney’s animation of all time in live-action feature adaptation in Bill Condon’s Beauty And The Beast, Greenwood has always used her instincts, skills and immense imagination to wow the audiences throughout the world.

She was nominated for an Academy Award six times, for Pride And Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, Beauty And The Beast and Darkest Hour, as well as Joe Wright’s Atonement and Anna Karenina. Greenwood collaborated with Wright on most of his feature films, including The Soloist, Hanna and last year’s Cyrano, yet her most trusted collaborator is set decorator Katie Spencer, who will also be in Toruń. They have been working since 1998’s The Governess (dir. Sandra Goldbacher) and share Oscar nominations as well as other industry distinctions. They recently worked on Greta Gerwig’s Barbie that will hit the screens next year.

Alex Gibney gets the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking

Camerimage has tirelessly promoted and celebrated the art of contemporary documentary filmmaking, putting emphasis on the myriad of creative ways the non-fiction medium can evoke emotions and increase awareness with their vivid imagery and compelling storytelling. Alex Gibney is an exceptional artist whose gripping and deeply insightful documentaries, with a signature cinematic style, have made him a real force to be reckoned with, “the most important documentarian of our time” according to Esquire Magazine.

When he was a teenager, Gibney, the son of a famed journalist, started going to places he should not have gone, and talking to people he should not have talked to, which resulted in his lifelong romance with the opportunities and threats of documentary filmmaking. He started his prolific career in the 1980s, honed his cinematic style during the 1990s, and then, in the 2000s, started to capture international attention with a series of mind-boggling and eye-opening films. Among them: Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, exposing the greed and corruption of one of the most influential US corporations; the Oscarwinning Taxi To The Dark Side, a harrowing tale of inhumane practices during the early years of the war in Afghanistan; and Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God providing a trulyhorrifying account of the decades of sexual abuse and paedophilia in the Catholic Church.

Gibney’s Gonzo: The Life And Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson put focus on a unique journalist and his disputed methods, while We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks, skilfully portrayed the dedication of those behind the most notorious organisations of our times, whose mission is leaking classified documents to give the power back to the ordinary people.

Although Gibney is mainly recognised for his rigorously-researched investigative work revealing corruption, greed and moral debauchery inside the many layers of corporations and institutions, he is also extremely skilled in finding flawed humanity in cultural myths and legends. As in Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine, Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All, or The Armstrong Lie about the notorious roadracing cyclist Lance Armstrong.

Vance Burberry to receive Camerimage Award for Achievements in the Field of Music Videos

Renowned Australian cinematographer, Vance Burberry, has a very long list of credits including such renowned performers as: Guns N’ Roses, Alice Cooper, Cher, Celine Dion, Pearl Jam, Avril Lavigne, Nickelback, Linkin Park, Backstreet Boys, Enrique Iglesias, Britney Spears, Ozzy Osbourne, The Weeknd, Santana & Wyclef Jean, R.E.M, among many others.

Burberry grew up in Sydney, where his passion for light began while working as a stagehand at a theatre company. He marvelled at the way light could transform the stage into a magical world that would allow the audience to immerse in the story being told. He soon began working in the lighting department, learning the craft of theatre lighting design. He read and re-read the bible of theatre

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lighting, Stage Lighting Design by Richard Pilbrow, which changed his world.

To make a living, which was hard in theatre at that time, he started lighting for local rock bands, eventually lighting concert tours for major Australian artists including Cold Chisel and INXS. He landed work on film sets, where he discovered a whole new world of light and quickly moved up to the gaffer position in the music video world. At the time, heavy metal bands wanted big concert lighting, and this soon propelled him to the position of DP, allowing him to design and create the lighting on-set for rockers like Guns N’ Roses, Tesla, Extreme, Alice Cooper and many more.

For Burberry, cinematography is not just a craft but a spiritual journey too. In his words, “For me to tell a story visually requires an emotional connection, I listen to my heart. The light must serve the story, regardless of whether it’s a commercial or feature film or music video. The imagery must connect the audience emotionally to the story being told. I love challenges of all aspects of what I do and cannot imagine doing anything else.”

Ulrike Ottinger with the Award for Avant-garde Achievements in Film

The festival will honour visual arts pioneer Ulrike Ottinger with its Avant-Garde Achievements In Film Award. Ottinger is known for work that challenges audiences’ notions of visual arts, and has stayed active for five decades across film, photography, theatre, opera and exhibition.

Ottinger made her film debut in 1973 with Laocoön & Sons, in which she laid out her aesthetic outlook. In her next movie, Madame X: An Absolute Ruler (1977), she challenged masculine tropes – gaining international success and helping to underpin the formation of the feminist movement. Joan Of Arc Of Mongolia (1989) was an emancipatory story of female identity, whilst anthropological themes dominated many of Ottinger’s documentary films, particularly the ones focused on Asia such as Taiga (1992), an eight-hour epic on the life of nomads living in that country.

Hype Williams with the Award for Achievements in the Field of Music Videos for Director

The work of work multi-award-winning, avant-garde visual artist and filmmaker, Hype Williams, has ignited the imagination of people on all continents. Among countless artists and bands he has worked with are The Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Beyoncé, DMX, Pharrell Williams and Jennifer Lopez. In addition to creating iconic and cutting-edge music videos, he has also been responsible for many still photography and advertising campaigns in the fashion world.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

Painting Tumult 1979-1988. Mülheimer Freiheit Exhibition

This year, the exhibition Painting Tumult 19791988. Mülheimer Freiheit has a chance to become the most significant artistic event at the Centre Of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń. Accompanying the festival, this exhibition will be the first in Poland to present works by German neoexpressionists who were active in Cologne during the first half of the 1980s. More than 200 largeformat paintings by the group will be on display. The exhibition – curated by festival boss Marek Żydowicz – will be open until mid-April 2023.

HFF Munich Film Review

This year’s programme will feature productions by graduates of the prestigious University Of Television & Film Munich, which has provided education for up-and-coming directors, screenwriters, producers and cinematographers, for over 50 years. Among the filmmakers to pass through HFF Munich have been Wim Wenders, Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck and Roland Emmerich. The film review will include a seminar on the art of cinematography with Peter Zeitlinger – an associate of Werner Herzog and Ulrich Seidl – the DP on such films as Bad Lieutenant, Encounters At The Edge Of The World and Rescue Dawn.

Walter Murch Presents: The Golden Ratio In Cinematic Framing

Across a century of cinema, and spanning all cinematic cultures, there seems to have been a tendency, when composing close-ups and medium close-ups, to place the eyes of actors along the “Golden Ratio” of the vertical dimension in the frame. Walter Murch, laureate of the Camerimage Golden Frog in 2015, will explore this startling hypothesis with clips from 25 films, as well as interviews on this topic with Vittorio Storaro AIC ASC, John Seale ACS ASC and Caleb Deschanel ASC — all previous Golden Frog winners.

Murch will also attempt to arrive at conclusions as to why this might be the case, with an exploration of the architecture of the human face, in the spatial relations between the hairline, eyes, nostrils, lips, and chin. He will conclude by suggesting reasons for those times when cinematographers choose not to conform to this intuitive aesthetic, by examining the films of Pawel Pawlikowski and his cinematographer Łukasz Żal PSC, also a Golden Frog winner.

Making of Notre-Dame On Fire

Notre-Dame On Fire is a riveting, heartbreaking film relating the devastating fire of April 2019. Several cathedrals were chosen for this reconstruction of the event at Notre-Dame, while many scenes involving fire were filmed in studios with stages specially-constructed for the movie. Filming in the heart of the fire was very difficult, requiring specialist equipment. Colour grading required special care to integrate the archives inserted in the film. Jean-Jacques Annaud (director), Jean Rabasse (production designer) and JeanMarie Dreujou (cinematographer) will explain how this movie was designed and shot.

Zeiss Seminar: Framing Triangle Of Sadness,

with DP Fredrik Wenzel FSF

Fredrik Wenzel FSF was the cinematographer on Ruben Östlund’s three latest films, Force Majeure (Cannes Jury Prize 2014), The Square (Palme d’Or 2017), and Triangle Of Sadness, which won the second Palme d’Or for its director this year. Having switched to a large format camera and Zeiss Supreme Primes for the film, Wenzel will detail the process of framing this satire in collaboration with Östlund, including a new perspective on focal lengths.

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Meeting With Bill Mechanic - Developing Scripts, The Changing Faces Of Finance, Distribution… And More!

Renowned producer, Bill Mechanic, will discuss his experience of working in Hollywood for over 20 years. Through his company, Pandemonium Films, respected industry veteran produced the Oscar-winning Hacksaw Ridge, BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated Coraline, and Dark Water. He also produced the multi-Emmy nominated 82nd Academy Awards.

Mechanic served twice as a governor for the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and has been on the board of counsellors for the USC School Of Cinematic Arts for 20 years. As chairman/CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment for seven years, he oversaw worldwide feature film production and created Fox Searchlight, Fox Animation, and Fox 2000. Under his reign, Fox won Best Picture for Titanic and Braveheart and garnered 42 Academy Award nominations, as well as creating the X-Men and Ice Age franchises.

Maryna Shaleva Seminar No Margin For Mistakes

Maryna Shaleva is a director with over 15 years of experience in senior positions in the largest television and media companies in Ukraine. She is widely-known and respected for her amazingly diverse work on top-rated projects, reaching over 29m viewers a year. At the seminar, she will share her experience and tell you how to control 30 or more cameras at a event live event, how to make important decisions in a matter of seconds, and talk about lighting solutions and camera plans for large TV shows, stadiums and city squares.

How the science of vision affects the art of cinematography - A Canon Seminar with Ian Murray

In order to truly understand cinematography, commercials DP Ian Murray went back to the greatest lens ever designed – the human eye. His research opened-up a universe of questions about how we create, perceive and interpret images. He realised that, as technology constantly evolves our ability to create imagery, it has never been more important to understand our own visual programming.

HBO Camera Assessment Test Screening, plus Q&A

The world premiere of the HBO Camera Assessment Series 2023, will be followed by a candid discussion and Q&A with Stephen Beres, SVP, production operations, and Suny Behar, director/cinematographer, who will discuss this latest instalment and what the future of imaging technologies may bring.

Filmlight Colour Awards & Seminar

FilmLight is once again hosting the 2022 Colour Awards. Acclaimed cinematographers, directors and colourists have come together to independently review the best colour grades across five categories – commercials, music videos, theatrical features, TV series/episodic, and a new “Spotlight” category for unsung talents.

Cinematographers at War by Kinoko Film Festival

After a Russian invasion of Ukraine, film professionals were forced to find suitable new roles for themselves, doing volunteer work, transforming restaurants to volunteer hubs cooking free food for those in need, and taking part in evacuations from front-line towns and villages. Some joined the Ukrainian defence forces, but everybody was also documenting the reality of war. This panel discussion will bring together Ukrainian cinematographers who will share their work experience after February 24th 2022.

BVK Seminar: Who supports the DP in the Camera Department? The Recruitment & Training Challenge

There is network of filmschools worldwide offering courses in cinematography. Every year, hundreds of young and well-trained cinematographers enter the industry. There is an enormous amount of production worldwide and the need for 1st and 2nd ACs, DITs and colourists is growing. However, recruiting in assistant professions is problematic as there are few formalised training courses, little protection by a professional job description, nor agencies or professional supervision.

Where will the new generation for the assistant functions come from? What skills are required - and where can they be learned? An international exchange of experiences on this topic will provide information on the situation in different countries, and offer suggestions for improving the difficult situation of young people in the assisting professions.

Angenieux: Optimo Prime & IOP Workshop

This creative workshop will be animated by DPs talking about the Full Frame Optimo Prime series by Angénieux and its Integrated Optical Palette (IOP). The workshop will help you understand different artistic possibilities given by the palette, and offer the chance to hear from DPs who used it and participate to tests of the Optimo Prime lenses and IOP elements on-camera. The new Optimo Ultra Compact zoom lens will also be presented on a Steadicam.

AFI Conservatory Cinematography Programme by Stephen Lighthill ASC

Stephen Lighthill ASC, current president of the ASC, and head of the American Film Institute Conservatory Cinematography programme, welcomes you to a discussion of the AFI Conservatory approach to filmmaking education with an emphasis on cinematography. He will be joined by recent AFI alumni at this reception and conversation.

ACS Seminar: A Wider Lens On Australian Camera Workforce Development & Diversity

Check out this world first, nationwide report which gives broad-reaching insights into the Australian film industry through the lens of the camera department workforce, which mirrors conditions many cinematography workers experience in other markets around the globe. Research led by Dr Amanda Coles at Deakin University reveals camera professionals face shocking and systemic inequality, discrimination, bullying and harassment, and a lack of diversity, all with serious negative mental health consequences. Come and hear ACS National President Erika Addis ACS and report authors, including Dr Coles, as report the findings and the all-important recommended next steps in this report.

Plus events, seminars, workshops and panels by ARRI, Astera, Rosco, Sony and others!

EXHIBITORS

At the time of writing, confirmed exhibitors at this year’s festival included Anton Bauer; Aputure; ARRI; Astera; Atlas Lens Co; Canon; Cinetica; Codex+Pix; Cooke Optics; Creamsource; Dedo Weigert Film; DoPchoice; Filmotechnic; Freelensing Cine; Fujifilm/Fujinon; Irix Lens; K5600 Lighting; LG; Leitz; Litepanels; Moonlighting Industries; Nanlux; OConnor; Qinematiq; Quasar Science; Sony; Sumolight; TRP Worldwide; Vantage Film (Hawk); Xeen; and Zeiss.

Aputure: Experience some of the latest advancements when it comes to LED lighting for high-end filmmaking. Get a hands-on experience with Aputure’s latest fixtures, like their flagship LS 1200d Pro and Nova P600c models, the MT Pro, Aputure’s first tube light, and the upcoming MC Pro. To celebrate Camerimage’s 30th birthday, the Aputure team might even bring something extra with them!

ARRI: booth highlights include the Alexa 35 and Alexa Mini LF cameras, ARRI Signature Prime and Zoom lenses, the Trinity 2, along with the Orbiter and its brandnew Projection Optics, Fresnel lens and Docking Ring. ARRI Rental will showcase its in-house lens development programme plus Alexa Monochrome cameras, and visitors can learn more about ARRI’s Certified Pre-Owned Programme. ARRI is hosting three educational seminars focussing on topics ranging from new Alexa 35 camera workflows to Virtual Reality productions. The ARRI Academy Masterclass returns, and ARRI’s Big Screen Event offers a deep dive into ARRI Signature lenses.

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Creamsource:

Designed to bring consistency and cohesiveness to a historically disordered aspect of lighting, Creamsource’s LNX rigging system simplifies rigging and cabling with a series of purpose-built clamps and pins for the hugely-popular Vortex lighting series and enables rigging crews to quickly assemble uniform/aligned arrays of Vortex fixtures with minimal gap between units with. Multiple latches and auto-locking features ensure the safety of anyone under the rig at all times. Designed to withstand heavy use, relocation, high levels of vibration and wind loading, the system complements the Vortex series fixtures, which are known for durability and flexibility.

Dedo Weigert:

Only Dedo Weigert offers the complete scaleable range for working with reflected light. The company is showing the complete system for Dedolight Lightstream, now a three-part family. The Dedolight Lightstream for drama shows, provides the illusion of infinity lighting, even in confined spaces. Dedolight Lightstream Lite is an eight reflector kit which can be activated by a single light, from 150W down to a 40W bicolor LED, meaning that complete sets, including background, can be lit. The Dedolight Lightstream Table Top offers endless creative options, including 15 different reflectors, two small 8W Ledzilla lights, enhanced by the Parallel Beam Intensifiers.

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Lighting: Paying attention to the environment, the company has fitted all of its lighting products with highefficiency, solid state sources. The range includes: LED Fresnel & Softlight with a patented system that guarantees exact optical features and control (Tungsten, Daylight, variable CCT or VW+Colours); LED Asymmetrical Cyclorama Lights with variable CCT or VW+Colours; LED Space Light offering variable CCT with +/- green adjustment; LED Lighting Boxes with VW + Colours. Developed in collaboration with Vittorio and Francesca Storaro, the large format Muses Of Light fixtures, with variable CCT, offer exceptional output performance and quality, and they look super-stylish too!

DoPchoice: Check out a wide array of products for shaping and controlling light. New Fat-Rabbit, 8-ft Double-Hex and 6’5’ Snapbags and matching Snapgrids add creative lighting control to large and multiple fixture arrays for ARRI Skypanel 360, Triple/Double DMG/Rosco MAXI Mix, Prolight XL Panels, 4X Litepanels Gemini 2x1, amongst many others. The rugged Fat-Rabbit offers configurations to mate fixture combos, creating soft, flattering lighting and accepts new lights via mounting adapters. New 8-ft Double-Hex, Snapbag offers easy set-up, compact form, a highly-reflective interior, removable Magic Cloth diffuser, and carry bag. For Prolights’ Ecl Panel TWCXL, Fat Rabbit supports the 6’ x 5’ Snapbag. Two new 40-degree Snapgrids easily attach to the 8’ or 6’x5’ Snapbags.

Fujifilm/

Fujinon: The company is showing its range of premium lenses and mirrorless digital cameras. Pride of place on the stand are the signature Premista series, with their impressive optical performance to allow you to express your creativity without compromise when using a large format sensor. Also on display will be the Cabrio lenses and their detachable digital servo grips.

Make sure to get your hands-on the GFX100S, which has 102 million pixels, and the latest, fifth Generation X Series cameras – the X-H2S with its open gate 6.2K shooting and ultra-low rolling shutter, and the 8K-capable X-H2. Both will be displayed with the MKX cine lenses to reveal how Fujifilm offers a complete solution of camera and lens.

Leitz: Lens-maker Ernst Leitz Wetzlar offers attendees the chance to play with its latest Leitz Cine Lenses. The new Leitz Hugo series share optical design with Leica’s iconic M photography lenses. Their compact, production-ready mechanics make a unique addition to the Leitz family of fullframe lenses. Also on display and starting to deliver, the Leitz Elsie primes combine gentle field curvature and fall-off with modern cine lens design. They will find a home on a large variety of productions due to their very mutable character. Test them alongside the Leitz Zooms for an excellent match.

Rosco:

Rosco is holding two seminars during Camerimage this year. The Language Of Color In Lighting, moderated by Nils De Montgrand, explores names, numbers, coordinates and the future of coloured light. Planning The Virtual Production Set will investigate the changing landscape for the camera and art departments.

Sony: Sony is hosting three seminars. The Emotional Flight Path will see top filmmakers discussing how to grip viewers’ emotions. SceneSetting For Intimacy, a discussion from a female perspective, will explore intimate environments in film with an all-female panel. Using Sony X-OCN Workflow To Streamline Post-

Production will discuss the technicalities of how to use X-OCN. Sony will also highlight its popular Cinema Line and CineAlta cameras. Alongside the new FX30 and the Venice Extension System 2 will be the FR7, the world’s first PTZ camera with lens inter-changeability and remote shooting functionality.

Sumolight: This year the company is showing its multiaward winning, most versatile and powerful light yet – the ground-breaking SumoMax, as well as the entirely new concept in professional lighting, the SumoLaser, a one-of-a-kind LED laser with a 2.6° beam angle and an output of 150,000 lux at 100m, plus the SumoSky, a portable and quickly expandable display and lighting system, ideal for smart VFX integration and mixed reality studio environments. Sumolight will also host a daily happy hour on its booth with a glass of Crémant and hors d’oeuvres.

Vantage Film:

Vantage Film is a developer/ manufacturer of film lenses and a sought-after fullservice provider of camera kit and filmmaking technology, supporting productions worldwide from an extensive pool of rental equipment. The Hawk lenses produced by company are considered leading-edge and enable filmmakers to translate their artistic visions into compelling visual statements. Since Peter Martin and Wolfgang Baumler founded Vantage Film in 1993, the company has aspired to set standards of excellence and unleash the creative power of its customers. Watch out for the brand-new Hawk MHX Hybrid Anamorphic lens series. Prototypes of these optics have already been used on a recent feature, and this year’s festival will mark the official premiere of this lens series.

Zeiss: Get handson the company’s portfolio of high-end cinematography lenses, including the new Supreme Prime 15mm. CinCraft Mapper will also be available for on-site demonstrations, showing how distortion and shading data for VFX workflows can be obtained at the click of a button. Attendees will also have an opportunity to join the Zeiss seminar with cinematographer Fredrik Wenzel FSF entitled, “Framing Triangle Of Sadness” – it’s definitely not one to miss!